One year ago, when Fiona turned four, Sam and...

One year ago, when Fiona turned four, Sam and I decided to home-school her instead of sending her to pre-school．I have always felt that the 0-5 years are an irreplaceable dreamtime．As Fiona is an inventive, observant child, sensitive and funny and great company, it would be a tragedy to find school rubbing away her uniqueness and restricting the building of her personality．

I tried not to reproduce school at home．I never had the urge to get a chalk, or a blackboard．I didn’t go and search out a curriculum(课程表)．I felt that my children would learn best if I stayed accessible (易接近的)and stayed out of their way．

Every day we worked some, relaxed some, read some and played some, but Fiona did not seem particularly happy here．She lost her temper once in a while．

How strange it was that my child who was free from school didn’t want to be free at all．Her friends all went to pre-school．She felt left out of a major part of her friends’ shared lives and experiences．I thought she was not in school for very strong, clear reasons, one of which was that the quality of learning my child did at home would be good, even better than expected．

Well, here was a situation I hadn’t expected．When we first decided to do this, Sam and I agreed that we would reassess(再评价)the situation for each child as she turned seven．Meanwhile we would offer her non-school-based opportunities to give her plenty of time with other kids-ballet lessons and swimming classes．She seemed to be enjoying all．But at times she kept asking when she was going to school．Whenever she asked this question, we told her that there would be a family meeting about it when she turned seven．She nearly always responded, “That’s when I’m going to go, then．” A fair amount of her curiosity was about school and I was afraid she was dreaming of going to school before she turned seven．

Although the advantages of home-schooling, I think, far outweigh its disadvantages, it is important for me to respect my daughter’s feelings and allow her to direct her own education．If her curiosity leads her to school, isn’t that where she should go?

Next week I’ll drive Fiona to her school．I hope that Fiona will learn to read and discover something wonderful to pursue in the world that opens up for her．I hope she will find the school activities provide her with satisfactory kid-time．

1．The writer decided to home-school her daughter, Fiona, because she thought________．

A．children aged 0-5 were too young to go to pre-school

B．Fiona may not be accepted by schools for her bad temper

C．home-schooling was much better than school education

D．children at Fiona’s age were too young to have their characters formed by school

2．In home schooling her daughter the writer tried to_______．

A．make her home just like a school

B．teach with a pointer, a piece of chalk, and a blackboard

C．be there when her child wanted her but tried not to stand in her way

D．teach according to a curriculum, which was suitable for Fiona

3．What was the writer’s biggest problem in home schooling her daughter?

A．She couldn’t decide what to teach and how to teach her daughter

B．She was not sure whether her teaching was suitable for Fiona．

C．She could not make Fiona give up the thought of going to school．

D．She didn’t know how to control Fiona’s temper

4．We can learn from the text that_______．

A．Fiona always acted against her mother’s instructions

B．it was against Fiona’s wish that she was educated at home

C．home-schooling was popular some years ago

D．Fiona’s parents would ask her opinions about school education

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When Americans Kay and Larry Day found a store selling kites nearly 20 years ago, they decided to buy a few kites for their children. For fun, Larry bought one for himself. “He went out and flew it and decided he needed to go back and get a better one.” Kay remembered. Since then, she and her husband have loved kite - flying. They own many kites and plan trips around flying them. They also organize a kite - flying event each winter in their hometown in lowa. “I’m at peace when I’m flying.” said Larry.

Kite - flying has a long history as an activity for adults and children. The custom of flying a piece of cloth high in the sky began more than 2, 000 years ago in China. Since then, kites have been used to do scientific experiments, power boats, take pictures from the air and much more.

“There is a kind of a kite for everybody out there.” said Nic O’Neill, president of the American Kitefliers Association. “Kite - flying can be done alone or with friends and family. And kite - flying requires skill, but also a little artistry. Experience makes a difference, as does the weather.” she added.

“Sometimes the best flying conditions happen in winter - on a frozen lake.” said Kay Day, who with her husband organizes the Color the Wind Kite Festival. It takes place every February on Clear Lake in lowa. This year, more than 100 children attended a kite - making class. Kiters are a really good group of people. It’s a family.

“The kiting community makes everyone feel welcome. said Oregon. “Her two children started flying kites about three years ago after attending a kite festival. And the kite fliers we know want to teach the kids everything they can,” she added. “They like that there’s a new generation coming up.” Her sons, Dylan, and Cardin, fly with kiters of all ages. “I do enjoy seeing different people.” Dylan said.

The 13 - year - old also likes the happy feelings that he experiences when his kite moves through the sky.“ It’s really calming.” he said.

1.Why does Larry like flying kites?

A.It can bring much fun. B.It is his favorite hobby.

C.It will build up the body. D.It helps him feel good in mind.

2.According to Nic O’Neill, we know that

A.individuals are not recommended to fly kites

B.China is the home of flying kites

C.flying kites is suitable for all people

D.weather conditions are not important in kite - flying

3.What can we learn about people in kiting community?

A.They are a group of grown - ups.

B.They get on well with each other.

C.They can acquire everything.

D.They tend to make new friends.

4.What is the best title for the text?

A.Kite- Flying： a Lift to People of All Ages

B.Kite - Flying： a Traditional Custom of China

C.Kite - Flying： a Close Bond to Strangers

D.Kite - Flying： a Hobby of Family Members

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On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.

“Hey, aren’t you from Mississippi?” the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. “I’m from Mississippi too.”

Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.

“They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,” Welty said. “I didn’t know what my New York friends were thinking.”

Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi.

“My friends said: ‘Now we believe your stories,’” Welty added. “And I said: ‘Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.’”

Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation.

“I don’t make them up,” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. “I don’t have to.”

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.

1.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?

A.Two strangers joined her.

B.Her childhood friends came in.

C.A heavy rain ruined the dinner.

D.Some　 people held a party there.

2.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s ________.

A.readers B.parties

C.friends D.stories

3.What can we learn about the characters in Welty’s fiction?

A.They live in big cities.

B.They are mostly women.

C.They come from real life.

D.They are pleasure seekers.

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C

On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Slide cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.

＂Hey, aren’t you from Mississippi?＂ the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. ＂I’m from Mississippi too.＂

Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.

＂They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,＂ Welty said. ＂I didn’t know what my New York friends were thinking.＂

Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚).

＂My friends said: ‘Now we believe your stories,’＂ Welty added. ＂And I said: ‘Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.’＂

Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation.

＂I don’t make them up,＂ she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. ＂I don’t have to.＂

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.

1.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?

A. Two strangers joined her.

B. Her childhood friends came in.

C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner.

D. Some people held a party there.

2.The underlined word ＂them＂ in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s _______.

A. readers　　 　　 B. parties　　 　　 C. friends 　　 D. stories

3.What can we learn about the characters in Welty’s fiction?

A. They live in big cities.　　 B. They are mostly women.

C. They come from real life. 　　 D. They are pleasure seekers.

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On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Slide cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.

＂Hey, aren’t you from Mississippi?＂ the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. ＂I’m from Mississippi too.＂

Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.

＂They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,＂ Welty said. ＂I didn’t know what my New York friends were thinking.＂

Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚).

＂My friends said: ‘Now we believe your stories,’＂ Welty added. ＂And I said: ‘Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.’＂

Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation.

＂I don’t make them up,＂ she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. ＂I don’t have to.＂

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.

1.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?

A. Two strangers joined her．

B. Her childhood friends came in

C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner．

D. Some people held a party there.

2.The underlined word ＂them＂ in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s _______.

A. readers　　 B. parties

C. friends 　　 D. stories

3. What can we learn about the characters in Welty’s fiction?

A. They live in big cities.

B. They are mostly women.

C. They come from real life.

D. They are pleasure seekers.

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When Mike Mushaw decided to join the national bone marrow (骨髓) registry nearly three years ago, he never ready gave it a second thought. After all, he did it only because his college, football coach had encouraged him and his teammates to register. But about six months after the sign-up, he did get a call. The now 21-year-old linebacker’s bone marrow matched a patient in Virginia. Mushaw had to decide whether to go all in. It would mean spending a night in the hospital and undergoing general anesthesia, which carries some risk. And he’d likely never know whether his donation worked. “Once they took 17 vials (试管) of blood, I was like, ‘All right this is real. This is going to happen.’”

His donation went to a five-month-old girl named Eleanor who was sick with a rare immune-deficiency disease that was diagnosed when she was only three month old. Eleanor had rarely left her house other than to travel to the hospital or the doctor. “Eleanor was going to die without a bone marrow transplant,” her mother, Jessica, told NBC.

Still, there was no guarantee of success. Eleanor’s family had hoped that she would have some improvement from the transplant, enough to live a more normal, life. Instead, after a few weeks, the doctors at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., came back with shocking news: Eleanor’s condition hadn’t just improved—Mushaw’s bone marrow had cured her.

Mushaw didn’t know any of this until months after his donation. In most cases, the donor and recipient remain anonymous to each other. But about six months after the procedure, Eleanor’s parents sent him an e-mail to thank him for saving her life.

“When they told me it was a little girl, I got a little choked up,” Mushaw says. But their surprising connection was only beginning. Mushaw asked whether he and Eleanor could FaceTime regularly so he could check on her progress. “It was amazing to watch her and be a part of her life,” he says. Eleanor kept tabs on him, too, by watching his football games on TV. Mushaw often invited her family to drive from Virginia to Connecticut to meet at his games where tiny shouts of “Mike! Mike!” could be heard from the stands as the little girl cheered on her very own hero.

“I had waited by that point well over a year to finally give a hug to this guy who saved my daughter’s life,” Jessica says. “We felt like we were on cloud nine all weekend getting to spend time with him and have him be with Eleanor.” In January, Mushaw reunited with Eleanor, this time in Virginia, to celebrate her birthday. It will likely be the first of many celebrations together. “As a parent, it feels really great to watch someone love your kid as much as you do,” Jessica says. We were two complete strangers, and now we’ve become such a big part of each other’s lives.”

1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A.Mushaw decided to join the national bone marrow registry on his own.

B.Mushaw was unwilling to donate his bone marrow.

C.Mushaw at first wondered whether his donation would work.

D.Mushaw signed up the bone marrow registry at 21.

2.What does the underlined phrase “kept tabs on” in paragraph 5 mean?

A.pay a price to B.pay close attention to

C.keep a record of D.keep pace with

3.What can we know about Eleanor from the article?

A.Eleanor was often taken out to travel before deceiving the donation.

B.Eleanor’s family was certain that she could be cured with the donation.

C.Eleanor was excited when watching Mike’s football game.

D.Eleanor first saw Mushaw when Mushaw went to Virginia to celebrate her birthday.

4.Which is the best title for the article?

A.A Little Life Saved, A Big Friend Made

B.A Medical Miracle

C.A Lucky Transplant

D.Donation Working, Girl Saved

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Steve knew he'd been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided he'd try to track down his birth mother. The agency from which he'd been adopted gave him his mother's name: Tallady. But online searches didn't turn up any results about it, and Steve had to let it go.

In 2007, though, he searched for the name again online. This time, the search results included a home address near the Lowe's store where Steve, then 22, worked as a deliveryman. When he mentioned the coincidence to his boss, his boss said, “You mean Tallady, who works here？”

Steve and Tallady, a cashier, had said hello to each other a few times at the store, but they'd never really talked. He hadn't even known her name. Steve thought there was no possible way she was his mother though they shared the same name. For a few months, Steve avoided Tallady. “I wasn't sure how to approach her，” he told a local reporter. Finally, the agency volunteered to arrange their reunion.

When Tallady realized that the nice guy she'd been waving at was his son, she sobbed. She'd always hoped to meet her birth son one day. Later that day, mother and son talked for almost three hours at a nearby bar. She'd given him up for adoption in 1985, when she was 23. “I wasn't ready to be a mother，” she told him. Married with two other children, Tallady says, “I have a complete family now.”

1.Steve gave up the on­line search for his birth mother in 2003 because ________.

A．the agency didn't give him any help　　　　　　

B．there was no information about his mother

C．his mother didn't turn up online　　　　　　　　　　

D．he missed the information about his mother

2.．What did Steve find about his mother online in 2007?

A．Her home address.　     B．Her full name.

C．Her boss's name.　     D．Her new job.

3.Why Steve avoided Tallady for months?

A．Because she didn't want to talk to him.

B．Because he wasn't fully prepared for the reunion.

C．Because she was very difficult to approach.

D．Because he didn't think she was his birth mother.

4.The best title for the text is ________.

A．The Love of Mother

B．An Unexpected Meeting

C．The Power of the Internet

D．An Unusual Reunion

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Steve knew he’d been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided he’d try to track down his birth mother. The agency from which he’d been adopted gave him his mother’s name: Tallady. But online searches didn’t turn up any results about it, and Steve had to let it go.

In 2007, though, he searched for the name again online. This time, the search results included a home address near the Lowe’s store where Steve, then 22, worked as a deliveryman. When he mentioned the coincidence to his boss, his boss said, “You mean Tallady, who works here?”

Steve and Tallady, a cashier, had said hello to each other a few times at the store, but they’d never really talked. He hadn’t even known her name. Steve thought there was no possible way she was his mother though they shared the same name. For a few months, Steve avoided Tallady. “I wasn’t sure how to approach her,” he told a local reporter. Finally, the agency volunteered to arrange their reunion.

When Tallady realized that the nice guy she’d been waving at was his son, she sobbed. She’d always hoped to meet her birth son one day. Later that day, mother and son talked for almost three hours at a nearby bar. She’d given him up for adoption in 1985, when she was 23. “I wasn’t ready to be a mother,” she told him. Married with two other children, Tallady says, “I have a complete family now.”

1.Steve gave up the on-line search for his birth mother in 2003 because _____.

A. the agency didn’t give him any help

B. there was no information about his mother

C. his mother didn’t turn up online

D. he missed the information about his mother

2.What did Steve find about his mother online in 2007?

A. Her home address.

B. Her full name.

C. Her boss’s name.

D. Her new job.

3.Why Steve avoided Tallady for months?

A. Because she didn’t want to talk to him.

B. Because he wasn’t fully prepared for the reunion.

C. Because she was very difficult to approach.

D. Because he didn’t think she was his birth mother.

4.The best title for the text is _____.

A. The Love of Mother

B. An Unexpected Meeting

C. The Power of the Internet

D. An Unusual Reunion

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About one hundred years ago many educated people learned and spoke French when they met people from other countries.Today most people speak English when they meet foreigners. 1. There are more people who speak English as a second language than people who speak English as a first language.Why is this?

2. One of them is that English has become the language of business.Another important reason is that popular American culture(like movies，music，and McDonald’s)has quickly spread throughout the world.3.

Is it good that English has spread to all parts of the world so quickly? 4. It’s important to have a language that the people of the earth have in common.Our world has become very global and we need to communicate with one another.On the other hand，English is a fairly complicated language to learn and it brings its culture with it.Do we really need that?

Scientists have already tried to create an artificial language that isn’t too difficult and doesn’t include any one group’s culture.It is called Esperanto.5. Maybe the popularity of English won’t last that long either.Who knows? There are more people in the world who speak Chinese than any other language.Maybe someday Chinese will be the new international language.

A.People like English.

B.But it hasn’t become popular.

C.It has brought its language with it.

D.There is no doubt about the question.

E.This is why English was widely spoken.

F.It has become the new international language.

G.There are many reasons why English has become so popular.

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A few years ago, I was working in a small office. I decided to improve office ______ and make people encouraged, but I wanted to do it ______. So one evening, I wrote up a few quotes that had ______ me over the years. The next morning, I went to work a bit ______ and quickly posted them up by the sinks and ______ in the office restrooms. Maybe someone else would ______ the quotes as much as I had, and perhaps they might just ______ their day, I thought.

For the next few months, some of the quotes got ______, but I noticed that a couple remained and felt a sense of ______. Perhaps others liked them, too. Eventually, I finished out my contract(合同)with that organization and ______ working in the office building.

Several months ago, I was invited to a(n) ______ with my colleagues to ______ how the project I had worked on was going. Towards the end of the event, I went to the ______, and the quote that I had written three years earlier was ______ up in the same spot by the mirror! It ______: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes."

Maybe the quote simply blended(融入)into the background for the ______ employees, or perhaps it still stood out as a ______ reminder each time someone went to the restroom. Whatever the ______, it was a sweet moment and reminder. We never know how long a seed planted will take to ______ and give fruit, but keep sowing seeds of ______ from the heart.

1.A. rules　　 B. hours　　 C. culture　　 D. tradition

2.A. naturally　　 B. namelessly　　 C. aimlessly　　 D. calmly

3.A. puzzled　　 B. shocked　　 C. inspired　　 D. amused

4.A. hard　　 B. carefully　　 C. late　　 D. early

5.A. mirrors　　 B. walls　　 C. doors　　 D. handles

6.A. enjoy　　 B. admire　　 C. post　　 D. tolerate

7.A. save　　 B. spare　　 C. freshen　　 D. take

8.A. passed on　　 B. got round　　 C. put up　　 D. taken down

9.A. satisfaction　　 B. disappointment　　 C. embarrassment　　 D. sympathy

10.A. continued　　 B. quit　　 C. missed　　 D. delayed

11.A. interview　　 B. reunion　　 C. quarrel　　 D. competition

12.A. design　　 B. prove　　 C. question　　 D. hear

13.A. restroom　　 B. building hall　　 C. workshop　　 D. meeting room

14.A. even　　 B. still　　 C. yet　　 D. again

15.A. spoke　　 B. told　　 C. read　　 D. wrote

16.A. new　　 B. forgetful　　 C. difficult　　 D. creative

17.A. shining　　 B. missing　　 C. movable　　 D. avoidable

18.A. choice　　 B. case　　 C. direction　　 D. excuse

19.A. ripen　　 B. expand　　 C. flower　　 D. grow

20.A. courage　　 B. patience　　 C. trust　　 D. kindness

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